General
Characteristics
Missions
Geological Features
Miscellaneous
100
This is NASA's guiding principal while looking for life.
What is "Follow the water"?
100
This body's temperature ranges are similar to Earth's.
What is Mars?
100
This is the orbiter that collected data for 8 yrs.
What is the Galileo?
100
This body is known to have canyons.
What is Mars?
100
These are thought to have brought life creating ingredients to early Earth.
What are comets?
200
These are the three requirements for life.
What are Water, Energy and Organic Molecules?
200
These are composed of dust, ice, rocky particles and frozen gases
What are comets?
200
This completed mapping of Mars in 2001.
What is the Mars Global Surveyor?
200
This is how many active volcanoes are on Io.
What is over 400?
200
A meteorite found in Antarctica that is believed to be from Mars is thought to contain this.
What is primitive bacteria fossils?
300
This is life that did not originate on Earth.
What is extraterrestrial?
300
These are believed to make up Saturn's E-ring.
What are icy particles from geysers on Enceladus?
300
This has flown through and analyzed the geysers on Enceladus.
What is the Cassini space craft?
300
Titan's surface has liquid lakes of these.
What are Methane, Nitrogen, and Hydrocarbon? (FYI--temperature on Titan is -290, Methane freezes at -295, Nitrogen is -346)
300
These are moons of Jupiter where scientists are looking for signs of past, present or the makings of future life.
What are Europa and Io?
400
This is the development and testing of theories about extraterrestrial life, including life on Earth.
What is Astrobiology?
400
Europa's atmosphere is mostly composed of this.
What is non-biological oxygen?
400
In 1974, the Pioneer found evidence that Io is composed of this.
What is silicate rock?
400
These 2 bodies are hopeful of life near undersea hydrothermal vents.
What are Europa and Enceladus?
400
This body is the only one known other than Earth to have a nitrogen rich atmosphere.
What is Titan?
500
This is 24 Themis.
What is the name of the Asteroid recently discovered to be carrying the ingredients necessary to create life?
500
This is the most geologically active body in the solar system.
What is Io?
500
The Mariner 4's first Mars fly-by was in this year.
What is 1965?
500
This is a geologic feature that emits the ice and gases into Saturn's E-ring.
What is cryovolcanism?
500
This body's undersea ocean could eventually have a higher oxygen content then Earth's oceans and be able to support larger creatures such as fish
What is Europa?
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